Introduction
ActionAid campaigns around the world for national and international laws to make multinational companies legally accountable for their impacts on human rights and the environment.
Some multinational companies are now more powerful than countries. Wal-Mart and Unilever regularly record profits bigger than the economies of countries where they do business.
Foreign companies can be a force for good in developing countries, bringing new jobs, technology and investment. But all too often they abuse the rights of poor communities and workers or destroy the environment by putting profits before people.
We are demanding that big business takes responsibility for its actions and reduce its negative impact on people living in poverty.
Every week in Britain, 32 million people shop in supermarkets, making UK supermarkets extremely powerful both in our lives and the lives of people that produce the food and clothes we buy.
The way supermarkets do business with developing countries is having a devastating effect on the lives of workers in their supply chains.
Our Who Pays? campaign highlights the cost to the poorest workers of this supermarket power and is calling for a watchdog to make supermarkets play fair overseas.
Take action: tell the UK Government you support a supermarket watchdog
Fact file
Two-thirds of world trade is carried out by multinational companies.
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